Analysis

Friday, January 5th 2024

Christopher F. Rufo WSJ, Jan. 3, 2023 “Throughout the campaign, I adopted the unorthodox approach of narrating the strategy in real time, explaining how conservatives could shape the media narrative and apply pressure to Harvard.”   The left has spent decades consolidating power across the institutions of American academic life. The crowning achievement of that effort […]

Analysis

Friday, January 5th 2024

Bret Stephens NY Times, Jan. 2, 2024 “… dehumanization is the price any institution pays when considerations of social engineering supplant those of individual achievement.” I had written and filed a column about Harvard and its president, Claudine Gay, when news of her resignation broke on Tuesday afternoon after fresh allegations of plagiarism in her published work. I’d like […]

Analysis

Friday, January 5th 2024

Jonathan Tobin National Post, Jan. 3, 2023 “The reason why Gay was so vulnerable to criticism wasn’t just the testimony but the fact that her career embodied everything that is wrong about an ideology helping to fuel the surge in antisemitism in the United States.” In the end, not even the support of former U.S. […]

Analysis

Friday, January 5th 2024

Joe Concha The Messenger, Jan. 4, 2024 “instead of accepting responsibility, Gay made her exit about the color of her skin.” MSNBC’s Joy Reid views the resignation of Harvard’s president, Claudine Gay, as a case of racism and sexism. “There is this sort of open war on Black progress, Black history,” Reid said, and Gay “is now the […]

Communiqués Isranet Daily Briefing

Friday, January 5th 2024 / Friday, January 5th 2024

 Table des Matières Nazifier les Juifs, une nouvelle forme d’antisémitisme Michel Eltchaninoff,                                                                                       […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Thursday, January 4th 2024

EMPTY HONOUR Dissent: For Harvard’s Sake, It’s Time to Let Gay Go: Brooks B. Anderson and Joshua A. Kaplan, The Harvard Crimson, Dec. 31, 2023 — University President Claudine Gay should resign. It has been less than half a year since Gay assumed one of the most prestigious posts in all of academia. Since then, scandal after […]

Analysis

Thursday, January 4th 2024

Melissa Korn WSJ, Jan. 3, 2024   “The most important thing that they can do right now is say everything. As many updates as they can provide, as much as they can tell the community, as much as they can openly and in real time share, the better off Harvard will be in the long […]

Analysis

Thursday, January 4th 2024

Heather Mac Donald City Journal, Jan. 2, 2024   “There is no indication from either the Gay resignation letter or the Harvard Corporation follow-up that the university is moving away from identity-based scholarship, hiring, and admissions.”   In her parting shot at Harvard, newly resigned president Claudine Gay has provided a reminder of why she never […]

Analysis

Thursday, January 4th 2024

Peter W. Wood The Spectator, Jan. 3, 2023   “Why is it in the best interests of Harvard to unload a dishonest, serial plagiarist, whose record of scholarship would embarrass a cooked lobster?”   In the end Barack Obama, Penny Pritzker, 700-some members of the faculty, the mighty voice of the Harvard Crimson and the entire nomenclature […]

Analysis

Thursday, January 4th 2024

Eli Steele Newsweek, Jan. 3, 2024   “How desperate were we for racial innocence? So desperate that we betrayed the American principles that enabled countless blacks to reach a place in life that was an improvement upon the world they were born into!”   After weeks of speculation about whether Harvard University’s president, Claudine Gay, […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Wednesday, January 3rd 2024

Will the Conflict Expand?:  Salem Alketbi, Israel Hayom, Dec. 26, 2023 Iran No Longer Hides Behind Proxies in War Against Israel:  Ron Ben Yishai, Ynet News, Dec. 26, 2023 Israel Has Sent a Message; Now a Big Decision Awaits:  Yoav Limor, Israel Hayom, Dec. 26, 2023 Biden Needs to Strike Back Hard Against Houthis to Protect Red Sea […]

Analysis

Wednesday, January 3rd 2024 / Tuesday, January 2nd 2024

Yoav Limor Israel Hayom, Dec. 26, 2023 “Until now Israel has operated within the CBM framework (the Campaign Between Wars) in an attempt to keep hostilities below the threshold of war. In an era where overt war is being waged in the north and south and where Iran is using many tools at its disposal […]